Word: plastic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Heaman hailed the new trays as "coming nearer to china" than the present plastic ones or the metal ones that were used right after the war. He defended the shallowness of the trays saying that regular china also lacked depth...
...many Communists (and Gaullists) as possible out of a new Assembly, re-elect as many Deputies as possible from the government coalition (Socialists. Radical Socialists and M.R.P.). Its basic feature is election by an absolute majority, with local party coalitions permitted. This is intended to give the more plastic center parties a golden opportunity to win seats at the expense of the right and the left...
...point, simply to avoid the incessant heckling of makeup men who complained about the difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...
...Kill. Inside the plane's plastic nose (transparent to radar) is a metal "dish" antenna that spins rapidly on its axis and at the same time swings with an odd back & forth motion. In doing this mannered dance, it probes the air ahead with far-reaching radar pulses. If the air is empty, a single line of light glows on the radar-man's scope. When a pulse bounces back from the enemy, a jog or "blip" appears in the line...
Wild Punch. His Balcony Escher describes as "a sort of self-mockery. I chose a town built on a hill so that in the sketch there emerged a powerful plastic suggestion by the perspective view of the blocks of houses. [Then I punched] the back of the paper. Now you can see the protruding tumor, and you see that these houses and sun were nonsense. But I, poor fool, what did I do? This wild effort to depict in appearance the reality seems also to have been illusion, for . . . the paper is as flat and smooth as before...